Archive for September, 2008

So I did it, I cheated on hand knitting, and went out and bought a kids’ knitting machine. It was really really cheap at K-Mart and I was curious. DL and OR just loved it, but it was incredibly annoying …

We originally “mastered” the tube, could not “master” the rectangle, and ultimately gave up.

I took those crazy tubes, and made a scarf:

And because I received two “Fun Fur”-like skeins with the machine, I ended up getting into Fun Fur briefly, just enough to make two scarves for two girls we went to birthday parties for recently:

And the machine knitting goes on. After my Machine Knitting to Dye For class, I got “hooked” and went to Michael’s to buy an Ultimate Sweater Machine. That ended up under my bed until now, unused. I also bought yet another kids’ knitting machine that had the upper tension rod like a real knitting machine, but haven’t opened yet. I suspect I’ll be returning those two, because for the next 5 weeks I’m a “real” machine knitter! I just started Loretta Warner‘s machine knitting class where in the next 5 weeks I’ll make a pullover, and I have rented a Silver Reed LK 150 which is sitting in my bedroom, waiting to be opened. (Don’t tell DL – I have plans to turn the unused parts of his room into my craft room: using his crap-covered desk for my knitting machine, ball winder and swift – photos to come when I get around to setting up this fun section of our house!)

…Because it’s there! I saw Lesley’s version and thought, “Hey, I like music and I just saw “The Rocker” today (very good!) so why not?”

The rules:
A.) Go to musicoutfitters.com

B.) Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year

C.) Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate

***Now, I really don’t “hate” any of these songs, so let’s just say I love some, and love other songs by the bands I’ve put in bold as well, so let’s just say I’d be happy not to hear the non-bolded songs again.***